Feed-bag holder



No Model.)

J. H. E. ZEIP. FEED BAG HOLDER.

No. 484,278. Patented Oct. 11, 1892.

THE nomus vEvEws cm, mow-mum, WAEWJGYON, u. c.

' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN H. E. ZEIP, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

FEED-BAG HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 484,278, dated October11, 1892.

Application filed April 18, 1892. Serial No. 429,654. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN H. E. ZEIP, a citizen of the United States,residing at St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, haveinvented certainnew and useful Improvements in Feed-Bag Holders; and I do hereby declarethe following to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to an improvement in feed-bag holders forsupporting a feed-bag at the outer ends of vehicle-thills, so that thebag may be in convenient position to permit the horse or other animal toeat from the same, the object of the invention being to provide asimple, convenient, and effective and easilymanaged adjustablearrangement, whereby the feed-bag can be supported adj ustably at theends of the thills; and the invention consists in the construction,arrangement, and combination of parts, substantially as will behereinafter described and claimed.

In the annexed drawings, illustrating my invention, Figure 1 is aperspective View of myimproved feed-bag holder. Fig. 2 is a 1ongitudinalsectional elevation of a portion of the same.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in bothfigures.

A A designate the thills or shafts of any ordinary vehicle, and D afeed-bag made of any suitable material and of any convenient size. Thisbag is so shaped and constructed that it can be supported at the outerends of the shafts below the head of the horse in such a position thatthe horse can eat the contents of the bag easily and without difficulty.The forward corners of the feed-bag D are provided with straps a at,having buckles, and the rear corners of said bag are also provided withsimilar straps b b, likewise having buckles.

O C designate the slide or adjusting rods. The straps a a are passedthrough slots in the slide-bars 0, near the forward ends thereof, andthe ends of the straps are then secured by means of the buckles, so thatthe outer part of the bag is securely fastened to these rods 0 C.

rods 0 C.

B B designate tubes or sleeves of suitable length and diameter. The rearends of these sleeves B are entered bythe thills A A, while the forwardends thereof are entered by the The sleeves B are provided at both therear and the forward ends with set-screws or thumb-screws c c, by meansof which the sleeves can be clamped upon the thills and rods withinthem, said sleeves being thus adjustable.

The straps b are firmly connected to the rear ends of the feed-bag D,pass around the sleeve 13 loosely, and then have their ends secured bythe buckles with which the straps are provided. Thus it will be seenthat by inserting the rods 0 farther into the sleeve B or withdrawingthem therefrom the feed-bag can be adjusted toward or away from thehorses head, so as to locate it in proper and conven ient position. Theadj ustability of the device relates not only to the movement of therods 0 to different positions, but also in the movement of the sleeves Bupon the ends of thills A. Thus the sleeves B can be so placed that onlya short portion of the ends of the thills will lie within them, and whenthis is the case the feed-bag can be removed at some distance from theends of the thills. The sleeves B therefore form a connection at alltimes between the thills and the rods 0, which connection is anadjustable one, the parts being capable of extension and contraction inthe way that I have described, in order that the feed-bag may be placedat different distances horizontally from the ends of the thills, andconsequently from the horse or other animal, and therefore said bag canbe adjusted so as to suit any animal.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. The herein-desoribed feed-bag holder,consisting in the combination, with the shafts A, of the adjusting-rodsO, the feed-bag D, provided with the buckle-provided straps a, by meansof which it is secured to the rods 0 C, said straps passing throughslots in the rods, the sleeves B, which are entered at their rear endsby the thills A and at their forward ends by the rods 0, said sleevesbeing provided with suitable set-screws, by means of which they can beclamped upon the thills and rods, substantially as described.

2. The combination of the shafts A, the slide-rods O, the feed-bag D,fastenedsecurely to the slide-rods O, the sleeves B, having setscrews 0,and the straps 12, passing loosely around the sleeves B and connected tothe feed-bag, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN H. E. ZEIP.

' Witnesses:

ED GREEN, 0. HILDEBRAND.

